We had rain last night a shower that lasted for about 3 minutes. It took 2 minutes for me to wake up and zip up the windows so a lot of rushing around for nothing.
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| Polishing the bench at the lookout, Misato in the background |
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| Mosaic bench a tribute to a local woman |
We awoke to clear sunny skies and little breeze. After breakfasting and scratching the usual body parts we headed along with Misato to Maclean. Here we indulged in an excellent cup of coffee after we had driven up to the lookout. Maclean has it's wooden stobie poles decorated with Scottish tartans as there is the Tartan Festival running this time of year. The sounds of the implements of torture (bagpipes) were emanating from a club in the main street.
From Maclean we journeyed through the sugar cane to the seaside resort of Yamba. This is one of the gun fishing towns I used to read about in my fishing magazines 30 years ago. We cruised to the headland where the lighthouse is located and strolled around before walking out out on the southern breakwater before returning to Jaws and Chips fish and chip shop. A tasty good value meal in pleasant surroundings next to the marina.
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| Water dragon (i am guessing) on the breakwater |
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| Enjoying the ambience |
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| View from the lighthouse headland |
It was then back to Coles to do the house shopping before finding the last coffee shop open in Yamba. It was pretty late @345 and they were closed by the time we left. They obviously didn't want us to linger serving the coffee on the cool side.
We investigated the ferry across the river to Iluka. This was passenger only and was $7 each way. We passed on that.
Back home we had a tasty fish and veg tea prepared by Misato who taught cooking in a private college in Japan.
All in all an excellent day off.
night folks
Cheers Simon
Lookout at Maclean (9.7 Mb)
Lookout at Yamba (9.5Mb)
Yamba breakwater (11.1Mb)
They don't call them stobie poles up that way Simon!
ReplyDeleteThey just call them power poles very bland :-)
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